James R.

I love to tutor. The joy of seeing a student's eyes ""light up"" when he or she understands is priceless. After more than thirty years of teaching, I have a very large ""bag of tricks."" I have succeeded many times when less experienced teachers have failed. The first thing I do is put the student completely at ease. The relaxed student can learn a lot more easily than the nervous student. Then I ask for the last test or problem set which gave the student difficulties. I then start looking at prob…